What you’re about to see is nutty on a couple of levels. First, it is nothing short of hilarious that these *Men Of God* are fighting with one another over who deserves what slice of the evangelical wingnut pie. On its face, that’s a farce. But what caught my ear was when Jack Hibbs disparaged Kenneth Copeland for getting rich on “grandma’s welfare check.” Hibbs is right to point out what a phony and a fraud Copeland is. Nobody deserves that call more. But since when is Social Security a “welfare check?”
Christian nationalist pastor Jack Hibbs attacks Kenneth Copeland as a "goofball" and charlatan who is ripping off old ladies: "If you're worth $900 million because grandma's been sending you her welfare check, I don't know; you should be arrested." https://t.co/IqEIa13oIW pic.twitter.com/4xnnRChjtQ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 31, 2025
Hibbs has been a minister for thirty years but he makes it his business to keep his net worth hidden. That brings to mind the old adage about people who live in glass houses throwing stones. But in any event, Hibbs has decided to throw down the gauntlet to Copeland and I’m presuming that extends to the rest of the prosperity gospel preachers.
The true believers of the prosperity gospel are some sick puppies. When I first began blogging I rented space from a guy who had been my computer repairman and he rented out (or gave) housing to some very strange people. One person whom he allowed to crash at the house for free for fourteen months (to the indignation of everybody else who lived there) was a woman I dubbed The Evangelical Wingnut.
This gal was in her mid-fifties at the time and homeless. She had quite the story. She had been a party girl, attending the bashes that Jerry Buss, at one time the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, used to give. That was in her youth, needless to say. She also claimed to have had a successful career as an exotic dancer “making $1,000 a night” but somehow all this money disappeared.
Then she told a tale of her own mother stealing $100,000 from her bank account and that was the financial straw that broke the camel’s back and led to her ending up in the house in Tujunga (in the northeast San Fernando Valley.) I never knew what the Wingnut’s true story was, but I suspect she just lived off of guys and lived off her looks, and then when she began to age, she simply wasn’t a marketable product any more in that particular subset of the world where men bought a hot chick like they bought a car. So she cobbled together a modern day Mary Magdalene persona and attended prosperity consciousness churches.
She truly believed that if she chanted enough Bibical passages (and I’m telling you, this sounded a lot more like witchcraft than prayer) and “believed” that she could “manifest” her desires. She even sent off to Kenneth Copeland for a booklet, “How To Believe God For A House.” “There’s no place like home,” Philipians 4:19 tells us. And so the Wingnut followed Kenneth Copeland’s booklets and videos and evidently thought that a house would fall out of the sky, like it did in Oz. One of these insane videos is posted below. I put it here so that you see how widespread lack of critical thinking skills are, coupled with mental illness, in this country. This goes a long ways towards explaining how Trump got in office. And addressing that topic, who else should show up but Copeland himself?
Copeland is what it looks like when the devil kills a Baptist preacher and wears him as a skin suit.
— 5010 (@50ten3) July 29, 2025
If that’s not an evil face, it will certainly do until the real thing shows up. Or, let me say it another way: if this is the face that Copeland presents to the world, then I don’t want to think about what his portrait in the attic looks like. It’s best that we not know.
Now, as promised, here is Copeland Ministries’ tape to you, so that you can bee-leave your way into a “debt free home.” (I’d be happy if I could bee-leave my way into my next article or next week’s articles but the God of the universe I live in says, “You want an article to manifest? You better sit down and start writing one then.”) Methinks if the evangelicals would go to work for the house that it would manifest a whole lot sooner.
Yes, it does bring to mind The Righteous Gemstones. That was a comedic show. What is tragic about all of this is that so many people fall for it. Karl Marx said, “Religion is the opium of the masses,” and the evangelical prosperity *preachers* are its crack cocaine.
” ” Religion is the opium of the masses,” and the evangelical prosperity *preachers* are its crack cocaine. ”
Perfectly put.
These people are drug pushers.
It’s pure magical thinking. This woman that I call the Wingnut was completely out of touch with reality. She just chanted her verses nonstop, expecting miracles. She told me once that God broke my computer because he “wanted more of me.” Her idea of “God’s will” is if we all becoming zombies praying 24/7. That’s Hell to me, not Heaven.
Your evaluation of frothing forms of evangelical evil is eloquent. It helps to explain and understand, and to illuminate how that excoriating and exudative eye sore “… Trump got in office …”
I will remember the phrase, “frothing forms of evangelical evil.”
When the Dems retake power, the first thing on the agenda (besides arresting every single MAGAt that can be found) is to send the IRS after every single televangelist for a full audit for the last 25 years (at a minimum). If the Democratic President has to issue an executive order to begin it, so much the better.
^^^should have been done a long time ago.
Kenneth Copeland is a madman. I hope there are no small animals around him. When Trump was in his twenties, I believe, he got hooked on Norman Vincent Peale and took to heart the ‘power of positive thinking’ and manifestation drivel, but him being a psychopath, took it to extremes. He created his own world where he will do anything it takes to get what he wants. He also loved and respected P.T.Barnum. He formed much of his psyche on “There’s a sucker born every minute. Trump’s WH spiritual “advisor” is the evangelical wing nut who’s married to the keyboard player in the 80’s rock band “Journey”. She’s Copeland in a dress. We’re going to need an exorcist to clean up our Executive Branch.
I’m no theological scholar, nor a believer. But from the purely layman’s point of view, and what I know about biblical text and the teachings of Jesus, aren’t these so-called “Men of God” more closely aligned with Satan than the almighty? I mean, talk is cheap; deeds tell the story of one’s character.